A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Cinnabar |
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| Description | Cinnabar, HgS (mercury sulfide), is an important ore of mercury. It often has a distintive red to violet color, but may also be dark gray or brown. In some spectacular samples it is associated with metallic mercury (a liquid). This sample is 8 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ California. Near New Almaden. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #197. |
| Key words | cinnabar, California |
| Tech details | 568 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1070 |
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